People love stories.368Please respect copyright.PENANA9wQ4qNE838
But all the nonsense the rabble makes up about vampires would deserve its own pyre, and I, for one, would be the first to set it alight.368Please respect copyright.PENANA56paN8cNbB
We observe, endure, remember. That’s why, so they say, we’re such skilled storytellers.368Please respect copyright.PENANAHt1kKeJ4Lk
But people are mistaken, as they so often are. We are no historians, no chroniclers; if anything, we are masters of repression and forgetting.368Please respect copyright.PENANAXcWXTGG2Vf
The truth is, none of us ever wanted to become those dark witnesses you believe us to be. And most memories are nothing but poison in the mind, slowly seeping through and tainting every perception of the present.368Please respect copyright.PENANA8CJ5P9AR4z
Yet sometimes, a sweet elixir colors that poison, and life becomes bearable for a moment.368Please respect copyright.PENANALzpuwvCXeO
It’s strange, after all these years, that I have never told you how things truly were.368Please respect copyright.PENANA8feco77ESd
Not the story I fed you as a child: that night in the forest, the basket, how I found you, and all we’ve been through together; you know those details by heart, and they are true. But all the shades in between, what happened while you were still too young to understand, that is what I owe you.368Please respect copyright.PENANAAnZEglT8pW
This is another story, one I once believed was mine alone. A story about lies I told myself, simply to hold on to what I never wanted to lose.368Please respect copyright.PENANAnnI5p1Ql3e
There are tales we tell to justify ourselves and to others. And there are stories we tell so we no longer have to.368Please respect copyright.PENANAPxO4eUeOVc
This is neither. I tell it because you deserve it. Because you shouldn’t have to hear any more lies.368Please respect copyright.PENANAuZzRbJ9bDk
It is mine, yours, ours. And one day it will be little more than a footnote, marked by a question mark, in the chronicles of Vargarin: an undead raising a human child.368Please respect copyright.PENANAcap8NnrnNH
You know, lies come easily to me. But today, I have nothing left but the truth.368Please respect copyright.PENANArmG839jEdj
For you.368Please respect copyright.PENANAKDoxlCX4DI
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